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Building Demolition Violence
A demolition of an abandoned building
is scheduled. It has been vacant 10 years.
Yet there are no inspections to see if there
are raccoons secreted in the chimneys,
birds hidden in the rafters, baby squirrels
in the attic, rats in the basement. (Rats too
have a sacred right to life.)
The bobcats and excavators start in,
sending broken glass everywhere. And
what do they do if they hear animals screaming?
Often there is gratuitous destruction of
trees, including trees the neighbors have
watered for years.
One city had not scheduled a single inspection
to remove animals ... of the 300 to 400
demolitions it had done in recent years.
It is time for every federal, state, city
and county demolition to schedule
humane removal of animals and birds.
